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Sorry OP, but I have to disagree. That link at the bottom is only visible if you scroll down for a few seconds. I scrolled around the site for a while and never saw it. If you want to give "complete credit", then I would recommend replacing the text in the header, from this:

<!-- Checkout live matches, recent matches and upcoming matches at one place. Built by Pankaj Tanwar. -->

to this:

<!-- Checkout live matches, recent matches and upcoming matches at one place. CricCode is a port made by Pankaj Tanwar, based on RemoteOK's VS Code site, which was built by Pieterhg. -->

where "Remote OK's VS Code Site" links directly to their VS Code site (not their "Show HN"): https://remoteok.io/vscode



Plus, like I said elsewhere, even the "Inspired by" section itself is copied from the original site. The entire page is copied verbatim, with only the text switched out for his cricket theme.

I'm sorry to the OP, but you just can't plagiarise someone else's work like this and then write a fake diary about how you built it yourself (https://pankajtanwar.substack.com/p/i-built-a-fake-vs-code-t...).

By way of contrast, the 'Inspired by' on the original acknowledges its debt to Geektyper (https://geektyper.com/word/), an MS Word clone so different that no one would guess at the inspiration. That is an appropriate level of inspiration for such a small acknowledgement hidden right at the bottom.


Meh, that's his problem if he gets hired due to this and is expected to produce something similar from scratch.

Neither one is trying to make money directly off of this, what's the big deal?


Well, it's generally frowned upon to pass off someone else's work as your own. Hell, he wrote an entire blog post detailing the process of 'building' this website (linked above).

It's staggeringly brazen. The only true sentence in his post is "It makes me look like I'm doing real work".


Oh hmm yeah, the blog post is a bit dishonest.


No, it's wrong because it is wrong. Not because whether someone benefits or loses because of it. That doesn't matter.


"Right" and "wrong" can often be quite an over-simplification as well as cultural (among other things)...

But I also clarified things in a sibling comment.




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